Games like LEXICON: Lingua Obscura
If LEXICON: Lingua Obscura is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bach For More Words, Penko Vox: Japanese and Typing With Ghostie — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About LEXICON: Lingua Obscura: A word based puzzle game where you twist strange rules, uncover hidden patterns, and solve clever linguistic challenges that always feel one step away from revealing something bigger.
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Bach For More Words
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Top pick for LEXICON: Lingua Obscura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
Bach For More Words is a challenging word game where you unscramble a word and select its definition from three related definitions. Then, you'll pair up the remaining definitions with their matching words. You'll find yourself learning new words without even trying with Bach For More Words!
Penko Vox: Japanese
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Second-strongest match for LEXICON: Lingua Obscura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
A local-first, offline-capable AI Japanese language immersion engine. Step into interactive social roleplays with a private tutor and master natural usage across all JLPT levels. No cloud tracking, no subscriptions, just your own private language sandbox powered entirely by your hardware.
Typing With Ghostie
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Third-strongest match for LEXICON: Lingua Obscura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
👻 A cute little Ghostie game that helps you type!
Lexicon
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Ranked #4 for LEXICON: Lingua Obscura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
A dark fantasy take on the old text based RPG style. Use discovered words to navigate your own mortal through a hand drawn water coloured world. Build your own commands and phrases and save them onto buttons in a beginner friendly system that allows for deep complexity.
MatchMaker95 - A Programming Simulator
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Ranked #5 for LEXICON: Lingua Obscura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
The programming simulator. MatchMaker95 is a cozy(ish) coding tycoon where you write real C++, grow a chaotic dating app startup, unlock game-changing upgrades, and turn lines of code into profit — all inside a lo-fi Win98 desktop.
Back 2 Basic
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Ranked #6 for LEXICON: Lingua Obscura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
Learning Doesn't Need to Be Loud. Back 2 Basic is a low-stimulus early education game designed to emulate the controlled environment of a classroom, offering parents and teachers deep insights into each child's progress.
Pitchforks & Paragraphs
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Ranked #7 for LEXICON: Lingua Obscura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
Pitchforks & Paragraphs is an arcade-style medieval typing game where you defend the castle gates from waves of rioting peasants. Type the words on their signs to cast spellballs, stop the advancing mob, build score multipliers through accuracy, survive longer, and climb the global leaderboards.
Typing English
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Ranked #8 for LEXICON: Lingua Obscura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
Typing × English! Practice typing while learning English vocabulary. 2,809 words that cover over 92% of everyday English and 94% of TOEIC vocabulary, across 149 stages ordered by frequency. Now with three question modes and pronunciation audio for every word!
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
The Children of Clay
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with LEXICON: Lingua Obscura.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
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Frequently asked about LEXICON: Lingua Obscura
- What games are most similar to LEXICON: Lingua Obscura?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside LEXICON: Lingua Obscura are Bach For More Words, Penko Vox: Japanese, Typing With Ghostie.
- Who developed LEXICON: Lingua Obscura?
- LEXICON: Lingua Obscura was developed by T-Squared Games.
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